Social Justice

Jesuit centre says ‘chronic problems in prisons’

June 25, 2018

The Jesuit Centre for faith and justice responds to the launch of the Irish Prison Service’s Annual Report

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Jesuit devastated by Brexit

audio June 24, 2016

Pat Riordan SJ says he's shattered by the Brexit referendum result which could split up not just the EU but the UK as well.

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Taking to the hills

April 28, 2009

Martina Madden and Anne-Marie Connolly (Peter McVerry Trust fundraisers, pictured here) are taking on a charity challenge this October to raise money for homeless services in Dublin. They are going...

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Short Notices

February 3, 2009

Clongownian Philip Flahavan (Rhetoric), won a Silver Medal in the Irish Science Olympiad Physics section. (This is the second year that Clongowes have been in the medals.) Philip will partake...

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World Day of Migrants

January 13, 2009

‘Floods of refugees’, ‘waves of migrants’, ‘immigration flow’… In an incisive article for World Day of Migrants and Refugees (18 January), Eugene Quinn, director of JRS Ireland, identifies a dehumanising...

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Spirituality for a time of bewilderment

December 16, 2008

Theologian Gerry O’Hanlon SJ works at the Centre for Faith and Justice, and lives in a corporation estate in Cherry Orchard, at the far end of Ballyfermot. He sees the...

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Short notices

December 16, 2008

An Inter-Institutional Centre for Spirituality and Social Transformation has been launched in Waterford Institute of Technology, through the participation (pictured here) of Michael O’Sullivan SJ (Milltown Institute), Sister Bernadette Flanagan...

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Fr Joseph A. Kelly SJ

December 16, 2008

“Some people become priests because they love God, some because they love talking about God, and some, like Fr Joe Kelly, because they love people.” Joe had moved from Dublin...

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JRS leads the way with migrants

December 9, 2008

Both JRS Ireland and Belvedere College received visits on 5 December from representatives of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The OECD is currently conducting a thematic review of...

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Making news

November 4, 2008

Three Jesuits were in the national news last week. John Dardis, on RTE’s News at One, talked to Sean O’Rourke about the two Jesuits murdered in Moscow. Edmond Grace has...

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